Data Architect – Riyadh (Onsite)

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Data Architect to join our team in Riyadh. The role focuses on designing, building, and governing scalable data platforms across cloud and on‑premise environments, ensuring high performance and reliability.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain conceptual, logical and physical data models, enforcing modeling standards.
• Define master and reference data management strategies, metadata management and end‑to‑end data lineage.
• Architect cloud‑native and hybrid data solutions using Snowflake, SQL Server and Oracle Cloud services.
• Develop and orchestrate enterprise‑grade data pipelines with Microsoft SSIS and proprietary integration platforms.
• Establish performance benchmarks, SLOs and KPIs, and lead capacity‑planning and performance‑tuning initiatives.

Required profile

• 7+ years of hands‑on experience in data platform architecture, pipeline development and infrastructure automation.
• Proven expertise in enterprise data architecture, data modeling and platform engineering.
• Strong ability to translate business and analytics needs into robust data solutions.

Required skills

• SQL Server
• SSIS
• IBM AppConnect API
• OCI Cloud services
• Microservices Architecture
• Erwin
• Snowflake
• Oracle Cloud‑native services
• Data Modeling
• Metadata Management
• Data Lineage